Logstash Filter for Processing sFlow FLOW records

logstash-sflow-filter

#################
# Sflow Filters #
#################

filter {

    if [type] == "sflow" {

# sFlow sends two kinds of messages - CNTRs and FLOWs
# I'm not doing anything with CNTRs at this point, so
# I drop those, and we concentrate on processing FLOW
# messages.

        if [message] =~ /CNTR/ {
            drop { }
        }

# sFlow FLOW messages break down into the following fields.
# I have named them arbitrarily, but they correspond to the
# actual field names.  I developed this grok pattern using 
# two tools:
#
# - sflowtool (http://www.inmon.com/technology/sflowTools.php)
#   Written by InMon, it provides a way to examine sFlow messages
#   in human readable format.
#
# - Grok Debugger (https://grokdebug.herokuapp.com/)
#   Invaluable, and self-explanatory.

        grok {
            match => { "message" => "%{WORD:SampleType},%{IP:sflow.ReporterIP},%{WORD:sflow.inputPort},%{WORD:sflow.outputPort},%{WORD:sflow.srcMAC},%{WORD:sflow.dstMAC},%{WORD:sflow.EtherType},%{NUMBER:sflow.in_vlan},%{NUMBER:sflow.out_vlan},%{IP:sflow.srcIP},%{IP:sflow.dstIP},%{NUMBER:sflow.IPProtocol},%{WORD:sflow.IPTOS},%{WORD:sflow.IPTTL},%{NUMBER:sflow.srcPort},%{NUMBER:sflow.dstPort},%{DATA:sflow.tcpFlags},%{NUMBER:sflow.PacketSize},%{NUMBER:sflow.IPSize},%{NUMBER:sflow.SampleRate}" }
        }

# Sometimes it doesn't work out.

        if "_grokparsefailure" in [tags] {
            drop { }
        }

# Because I'll ultimately be displaying all of this
# in Kibana, I want to translate many of the IP addresses
# into recognizable hostnames.  We take the IP fields,
# and copy them into new fields that we'll be doing DNS
# lookups on:

        mutate {
            add_field => {
                "[sflow.SrcHostname]" => "%{sflow.srcIP}"
                "[sflow.DstHostname]" => "%{sflow.dstIP}"
                "[sflow.ReporterName]" => "%{sflow.ReporterIP}"
            }
        }

# I also want to translate things like Source and
# Destination port numbers into known service names.
# for this to work, you have to built some YAML files,
# which basically map everything you'd find in an
# /etc/services file.  I'll post my YAML files in
# other Gists.

        translate {
            field => "[sflow.srcPort]"
            destination => "[sflow.SrcSvcName]"
            dictionary_path => "/etc/logstash/dictionaries/iana_services.yaml"
        }

        translate {
            field => "[sflow.dstPort]"
            destination => "[sflow.DstSvcName]"
            dictionary_path => "/etc/logstash/dictionaries/iana_services.yaml"
        }

        translate {
            field => "[sflow.IPProtocol]"
            destination => "[sflow.ProtName]"
            dictionary_path => "/etc/logstash/dictionaries/iana_protocols.yaml"
        }

        translate {
            field => "[sflow.tcpFlags]"
            destination => "[sflow.TCPFlagDecode]"
            dictionary_path => "/etc/logstash/dictionaries/tcp_flags.yaml"
        }

# Here we do our DNS reverse lookups:

        dns {
            reverse => [ "sflow.SrcHostname" ]
            action => "replace"
        }

        dns {
            reverse => [ "sflow.DstHostname" ]
            action => "replace"
        }

        dns {
            reverse => [ "sflow.ReporterName" ]
            action => "replace"
        }

# If the reverse lookup didn't fail (leaving us with
# nothing but numerics) we grok the FQDN, parsing it
# into a HOST and DOMAIN - and then we store the
# HOST portion into a new field - sflow.SrcHost
#
# Otherwise, we just dump the unresolved IP address
# into the sflow.SrcHostname field.

        if [sflow.SrcHostname] !~ /(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)/ {
            grok {
                match => [ "[sflow.SrcHostname]", "%{DATA:src_host}\.%{GREEDYDATA:domain}" ]
                add_field => { "[sflow.SrcHost]" => "%{src_host}" }
            }
        } else {
            mutate {
                add_field => [ "[sflow.SrcHost]", "%{[sflow.SrcHostname}" ]
            }
        }

        if [sflow.DstHostname] !~ /(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)/ {
            grok {
                match => [ "[sflow.DstHostname]", "%{DATA:dst_host}\.%{GREEDYDATA:domain}" ]
                add_field => { "[sflow.DstHost]" => "%{dst_host}" }
            }
        } else {
            mutate {
                add_field => [ "[sflow.DstHost]", "%{[sflow.DstHostname}" ]
            }
        }

        if [sflow.ReporterName] !~ /(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)/ {
            grok {
                match => [ "[sflow.ReporterName]", "%{DATA:rep_host}(\.|\-)" ]
                add_field => { "[sflow.Reporter" => "%{rep_host}" }
            }
        } else {
            mutate {
                add_field => [ "[sflow.Reporter]", "%{[sflow.ReporterName}" ]
            }
        }

# There are a bunch of fields from the original
# message, as well as some I created temporarily,
# that I don't care to store.  Here's where I drop
# them all.

        mutate {
            remove_field => [ "host", "command", "sflow.inputPort", "sflow.outputPort", "sflow.srcMAC", "sflow.dstMAC", "sflow.EtherType", "sflow.in_vlan", "sflow.out_vlan", "sflow.IPTTL", "sflow.IPSize", "message", "src_host", "dst_host", "rep_host", "SampleType", "domain" ]
        }

# Lastly, we're going to want Kibana and
# Elasticsearch to be able to do some math
# with certain fields, so make sure they're
# handled as numbers, rather than strings.
# You can also do this by setting up templates
# in Elasticsearch, but this is easier.

        mutate {
                convert => {
                        "sflow.PacketSize" => "integer"
                        "sflow.SampleRate" => "integer"
                }
        }

    }

}

Good advice. I'll incorporate that in the future.

Sometimes the flows are inverted (destination <-> source)

Would it be possible to automatically swap the fields when dstPort > 10000 ?

@Ay4shi, Using dstPort > 10000 as an inversion parameter would not always work. If you normalizing TCP conversations, try using their flags instead.

Anyone please help me to install Logstash Plugin logstash-codec-sflow.
In latest verison of Logstash, they are not providing the same.